I find it quite irritating when people bitch about something just because it's popular. You see this quite often with bands and sometimes cinema. I don't think anybody could blame me, however, for thinking that Facebook has been ruined by its popularity. I can't sign on now without my front page reading like dispassionate list of everything that has ever happened.
Some friend became a fan of "When blue Smarties came back!"
Another friend joined the group "I take showers naked!!"
Last friend joined the group "Can this colostomy bag get more fans than Robert Mugabe?!"
A while back I went through my bloated friends-list and deleted 70% of the token additions in an effort to combat this. It hasn't helped. It seems that even the people I like are fascinated with broadcasting every minute detail of their life, from the fact that they "lol'd when [they] saw this seal" to the declaration that "it is snowing up north!!"
I know it seems wildly ironic for me of all people to complain about raging egocentrism—particularly as I do it from my soapbox—but I think I can say without contradiction that the people whose formative years fell in the last decade—people whose ages range from 10 and 20 years old—really could come to be known as Generation Me, Me, Me.
I think when I have children I'm going to teach them that I love them and that I care about them, but that doesn't mean necessarily that anybody else does.
